This presentation will describe the history of ZFS, its differences from other file systems, various solutions built on ZFS, and tips on how to deploy ZFS.

Bio:
Tommy Scherer is a graduate of Portland State University and currently is a Product Engineer with Silicon Mechanics. From the SMB to large organizations, Tommy designs and architects storage, cloud and virtualization solutions. To adapt to the evolving software defined storage market, Tommy embraced open-source technologies as a cost-effective alternative to proprietary hardware and software stacks. With over 5 years of successful ZFS deployments, he is a recognized Subject Matter Expert and has been awarded the prestigious title of “Nexenta Fellow” by Nexenta System, Inc.

In his spare time, for which he has little, Tommy enjoys road racing his Suzuki GSXR 600 and is an avid skier and cycl

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Seattle based special interest group for system and network administrators

About SASAG

Seattle Area System Administrators Guild (SASAG) is a local group for systems administrators in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest areas (North Western Washington). For more details, please see Who We Are and What We Do.